| Introduction: Reading Feminist Theory | |
| What is Feminist Theory? What is Feminism? | |
| “Feminism” “Feminist” The Feminist Dictionary (1985) | |
| “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers Gardens (1983) | |
| “Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education” (1979) | |
| “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1977) rptd in Sister/Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) | |
| “Theory as Liberatory Practice” from Teaching to Transgress (1994) | |
| “Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘The Woman’s Voice’” (1983) | |
| Lexicon of the Debates: Feminisms | |
| Bodies | |
| Sexualities | |
| Epistemologies | |
| Essentialism/Social Construction | |
| Language | |
| Power | |
| Psychoanalysis and/in Feminism | |
| Intersections of Race, Class and Gender | |
| Sexual Division of Labor | |
| Subjectivities | |
| “Third World”/Global Feminisms | |
| 1792 through 1920—Introduction | |
| “The Changing Woman” (Navajo Origin Myth) | |
| “Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society.” from Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) | |
| From Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (1838) | |
| Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments from The History of Women’s Suffrage (1848) | |
| Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851) “Keep the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring” (1867) | |
| Chapters 2 & 4 from Subjection of Women (1870) | |
| “Letter to my Countrywomen Dwelling in Farmsteads and Cottages of England” (1871) | |
| “Wife Torture in England” (1878) | |
| From Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) | |
| “The Status of Women in America” from A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South (1892) | |
| From “Introduction” and “Genesis” The Women’s Bible (1895) | |
| Chapter VII from Women and Economics (1898) | |
| “The Progress of Colored Women” (1898) | |
| From Women and Labor (1911) | |
| From The Traffic in Women (1910) | |
| “Girl Slaves of the Milwaukee Breweries” (1910) | |
| “Now We Begin” from On Women and Revolution (1919) | |
| 1920 through 1963—Introduction | |
| “Birth Control-A Parent’s Problem or Woman’s?” from Women and the New Race (1920) | |
| “Studies in Female Inversion” (1923) | |
| From A Room of One’s Own (1929) | |
| “The Dread of Women” (1932) | |
| “Sex and Temperament” from Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935) | |
| From “The Haunting Idead: Its Nature and Origin” from Woman as a Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946) | |
| “A Comparative Study: Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Positions of Women and Negroes” (1946) | |
| From Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times (1976) | |
| “Introduction” from The Second Sex (1949) | |
| “Conclusion” from Sex Variant Women in Literature (1956) | |
| 1963 through 1975—Introduction | |
| From The Feminine Mystique (1963) | |
| “Powers and Dangers” from Purity and Danger (1966) | |
| NOW Statement (1966) | |
| S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967) | |
| From Sexual Politics (1969) | |
| “An Argument for Black Women’s Liberation as a Revolutionary Force” (1969) | |
| Redstockings Manifesto (1969) | |
| “Learning to Be a Woman” from Patriarchal Attitudes (1970) | |
| “The Dialectic of Sex” from The Dialectic of Sex (1970) | |
| “The Liberation of Black Women” in Voice of the New Feminism (1970) | |
| “Why Owl (Older Women’s League)?” (1970) | |
| From “The Hidden River of Androgyny” Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1973) | |
| “Older Women a Stockpile of Losses” from Amazon Odyssey (1974) | |
| “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture” (1974) | |
| “The Laugh of Medusa” (1975) | |
| “Semantic Polarizations” from Women and Words (1975) | |
| From “Conclusion: Women’s Liberation in Muslim Countries” from Beyond the Veil: Male- Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (1975) | |
| “The Traffic in Women” (1975) | |
| 1975 through 1985—Introduction | |
| “The Female World of Love and Ritual” (1975) | |
| “Women Fight Back” in Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) | |
| From Close to Home (1975) | |
| “What Became of God the Mother? | |
| Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity” (1976) | |
| Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977) | |
| From “This Sex Which is Not One” from This Sex Which Is Not One (1977) | |
| “Some Reflections on Separatism and Power” (1978) rptd. in Politics of Reality | |
| “Age, Race, Sex and Class: Women Redefining Difference” (1978) rptd. in Sister/Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) | |
| “The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life” from The Reproduction of Mothering (1978) | |
| “The Straight Mind” (1978) from The Straight Mind and Other Essays | |
| “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980) | |
| “Maternal Thinking” (1985) | |
| “Feminism and the Revolt Against Nature” from Heresies no. 13 (1981) | |
| “Asian Pacific Women and Feminism” (1981) | |
| “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union” (1981) | |
| “Concepts of Self and Morality” from In a Different Voice (1982) | |
| “Is the Gaze Male?” (1982) | |
| “The Fear that Feminism Will Free Men First” from Power of Desire (1983) | |
| “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” (1984/1991) | |
| “Politics of Location” from Blood, Bread and Poetry (1984) | |
| 1985 through 1995 | |
| “Kochinnenko in the Academy” (1986) | |
| “What is Feminism” (1986) | |
| “Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective” from Tikkun 1:2 (1986) | |
| Gloria Anzaldua, &<$$$> | |
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